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  • The Flood Year 1927

    A Cultural History

    by Susan Scott Parrish ...
    A richly nuanced cultural history of the Great Mississippi floodThe Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, which covered nearly thirty thousand square miles across seven states, was the most destructive river flood in U.S. history. Due to the speed of new media and the slow progress of the flood, this was the first environmental disaster to be experienced on a mass scale. As it moved from north to south ... Read more

    Was $49.49 CAD Now $32.99 CAD

  • American Curiosity

    Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World

    by Susan Scott Parrish ...
    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    Colonial America presented a new world of natural curiosities for settlers as well as the London-based scientific community. In American Curiosity, Susan Scott Parrish examines how various peoples in the British colonies understood and represented the natural world around them from the late sixteenth century through the eighteenth. Parrish shows how scientific knowledge about America, rather than ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Environment and the Natural World: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    by Susan Scott Parrish ...
    Series series Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guides
    This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of the ancient world find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • History of Science: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    by Susan Scott Parrish ...
    Series series Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guides
    This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of the ancient world find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to American Literature and the Environment

    Edited by Sarah Ensor, Susan Scott Parrish ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This Companion offers a capacious overview of American environmental literature and criticism. Tracing environmental literatures from the gates of the Manzanar War Relocation Camp in California to the island of St. Croix, from the notebooks of eighteenth-century naturalists to the practices of contemporary activists, this book offers readers a broad, multimedia definition of 'literature', a ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

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  • Material Culture: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    by Robert DuPlessis ...
    Series series Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guides
    This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of the ancient world find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook ... Read more

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  • The Promise of Multispecies Justice

    Edited by Sophie Chao, Karin Bolender, Eben Kirksey ...
    What are the possibilities for multispecies justice? How do social justice struggles intersect with the lives of animals, plants, and other creatures? Leading thinkers in anthropology, geography, philosophy, speculative fiction, poetry, and contemporary art answer these questions from diverse grounded locations. In America, Indigenous peoples and prisoners are decolonizing multispecies relations ... Read more

    $29.69 CAD

  • Colonial Botany

    Science, Commerce, and Politics in the Early Modern World

    Edited by Londa Schiebinger, Claudia Swan ...
    In the early modern world, botany was big science and big business, critical to Europe's national and trade ambitions. Tracing the dynamic relationships among plants, peoples, states, and economies over the course of three centuries, this collection of essays offers a lively challenge to a historiography that has emphasized the rise of modern botany as a story of taxonomies and "pure" systems of ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • Eighteenth-Century Environmental Humanities

    by Jeremy Chow, Elliot Patsoura, Annette Hulbert, Adam Sweeting, Shelby Johnson, Mariah Crilley, Claire Campbell, Jason Payton, Matt Duquès, Ami Yoon0, Christopher Allan Black1, Kate Scarth2 ...
    Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
    This groundbreaking new volume unites eighteenth-century studies and the environmental humanities, showcasing how these fields can vibrantly benefit one another. In eleven chapters that engage a variety of eighteenth-century texts, contributors explore timely themes and topics such as climate change, new materialisms, the blue humanities, indigeneity and decoloniality, and green utopianism. ... Read more

    $42.89 CAD

  • Chiefdoms and Other Archaeological Delusions

    by Timothy R. Pauketat ...
    Series series Issues in Eastern Woodlands Archaeology
    In recent decades anthropology, especially ethnography, has supplied the prevailing models of how human beings have constructed, and been constructed by, their social arrangements. In turn, archaeologists have all too often relied on these models to reconstruct the lives of ancient peoples. In lively, engaging, and informed prose, Timothy Pauketat debunks much of this social-evolutionary ... Read more

    $55.79 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Environmental History

    Edited by Andrew C. Isenberg ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The field of environmental history emerged just decades ago but has established itself as one of the most innovative and important new approaches to history, one that bridges the human and natural world, the humanities and the sciences. With the current trend towards internationalizing history, environmental history is perhaps the quintessential approach to studying subjects outside the nation ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Contemporary Archaeology in Theory

    The New Pragmatism

    Edited by Robert W. Preucel, Stephen A. Mrozowski ...
    The second edition of Contemporary Archaeology in Theory: The New Pragmatism, has been thoroughly updated and revised, and features top scholars who redefine the theoretical and political agendas of the field, and challenge the usual distinctions between time, space, processes, and people.Defines the relevance of archaeology and the social sciences more generally to the modern worldChallenges the ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD